One of the other therapies that I have embraced in the last couple of months is acupuncture. Not only can this help with pain reduction, but it can also help me to deal with some of the symptoms of induced menopause and the other effects of cancer.

Happy Holidays to everyone who is facing cancer or is helping someone through cancer, My stage 4 diagnosis this past October 2018 came as a total shock. My cancer is not curable so my goal is to learn to live with cancer and enjoy my life to its fullest. I have 4 awesome dogs, 1 husband, 1 son, 2 stepsons, an incredible family and network of friends.

One thing I have learned along this journey is to have gratitude for all those people around and helping me. I know. It takes a village to manage a cancer patient like me. I wanted to take a minute just to acknowledge some of the amazing people who have stepped up and shown me all the love and support that they possibly could.

I try to stay positive as much as possible but there are (obviously) some things about this that are just terrible and difficult to deal with. The reason that I was in the hospital for so long was because we were dealing with pain management and trying to get my pain under control.

After spending nearly a month in the hospital, I was able to start November by going home. This was not an easy transition to make. While of course I wanted to get home to my family and dogs, the hospital was a very comforting and healing place for me. I felt a lot of love and support from the staff and knew that they were doing their best to take care of me.

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